The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, March 24, 1927, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 9; Number 12 Gray Confesses Slaying Snyder Editor Was Clubbed, Chloroform ed and Strangled to Death. , WOMAN ALSO CONFESSES Old Story of Eternal Triangle is Related to Police. New York, March, 24.— Henry Judd Gray, 34, confessed today that love led him and Mrs. Ruth Snyder, 32 to kill her husband Albery Sny der, 45, art editor of Motor Boating, who was clubbed chloroformed and strangled in Queens Village early Sunday. Gray in his confessioo statea that the murder was agreed to when a woman threatened "to reveal their relations to Mrs. Gray unless Snyder was disposed of. Breaks Down Mrs. Snyder made the confession yesterday that led to Gray’s con fession today. Sae broke down un der 14 nours of grilling and related to police tee sordid details of the eternal triangle that had the final outcome of death. It was the “old story” said the police, “the eternal triangle,” of a young woman linked in marriage to a jnan her senior and a plot for “freedom” with the “other man” re sulting in a crime of premediated brutality, described by the police as unparalled here in years. The confessed slayer was taken at Syracuse Monday and denied any connection with the affair at the time except that he had been inti mate with Mrs. Snyder. He at first claimed that he had been in Syracuse and could prove that he was there at the time of the slaying. Replete With Details The confession of Mrs. Snyder was replete with lurid details. It completely swept away her first hysterical, fantastical outburst that she had been seized, bound and gagged by “a giant of a man” while another beat to death her husband. The alleged confession told of the return of the Snyder family to their modest home in Queens vil lage— the husband and his wife and their nine year old daughter, Lor raine, from a bridge whist game at a neighbor’s home, after midnight Sunday. Mr. Snyder, who had had “quite a lot to drink” wanted to go to bed, she is alleged to have said, and she helped him undress. Deal' in one ear, she placed him on the bed with his “deaf ear up” and then, the police say, she let Gray into the house. In the next room, the two had a few drinks, the statement said, and after Gray is alleged to have said, “I can’t live without you,” the mur der was planned. Gray: is alleged to have struck hie sleeping man with an iron instru ment, which the police believe was the iron pinchbar found, together with rubber groves, in Grays grip in Syracuse. Snyder’s feet were tied tgether with a necktie, his hands bound with picture wire, and his throat gashed with a twisted loop of the same material. In addition traces of an anaesthetic were found in his organs. SLAYS KIN, AND TAKES OWN LIFE, SAID Talbotton, Ga., March 24.—J. A. Battle, 48, prominent business man and Ford dealer, was shot through the heart and instantly killed at 1* o’clock Tuesday morning at his home here by his brother-in-law, H. D. Smith, 45, who occupied a room in his home. Smith then went into his room and blew his brains out with a shotgun. Mr. Battle had Just returned to Talbotton from Atlanta, where he attended a banquet. He was accom panied to Atlanta by his wife, who stopped over while her husband drove to the home. On reaching the home, Battle vent into the house and Smith immediate ly fired the bullet from a pistol through the latter’s heart. No reason could be assigned for the double tragedy, since no serious bad feeling was known to exist be tween the two men. Mrs. Battle, sister of the slayer suicide, was prostrated with grief. The duty on onions and garlic is to be revised, but the odor isn’t. THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Expect Arrest Macon Slayer Hogan Murderers Fled North From City in Several Cars. TRAIL IS FOLLOWED Indications That They Will Be Brought to Bay Soon. Macon, Ga., Mar., 24. —The mys terious man, dressed in khaki, des cribed as the slayer of E. B. Hogan, with two companions, fled towards the north In a fleet of stolen automo miles, thereby leaving a plain mark ed trail which the deputies are now following. Indications are that the trio will be brought to .bay within a few hours. Macon, March 24. —A fourth auto mobile, reported stolen from W. E. Dix, lineman for the Southern Bell Telephone Company at Juliette, Ga., Thursday night, put Bibb county deputies on a hot trail tonight in the hunt for the murderers of E. B. Hogan, Macon broker who was shot to death on a country road last Wed nesday night. The new lead, deputies said to night, is the best clue that has been given during the course of their in vestigation. It has been definitely ascertained through descriptions given by three different parties, that the murder suspects left Juliette in a coupe between 10:30 o’clock and 11 o’clock Thursday night, after they had spent all of a night and most of the day Thursday in the woods near Dames’ ferry. The last stolen car, and the car in which the murderers are believed to have made their getaway bore a Georgia license tag number 142-310 and a motor number 9,235,737. GEORGIA NEGRO ADMITS KILLING NINE PERSONS; IS HELD IN NEW JERSEY Augusta, Gt., March 24. —John Clarke, negro, who was convicted from Richmond county in 1906 for killing three other negroes and who is said to have confessed to killing nine persons, is bsing held at Newark, N. J., for the authorities of this county, according to a letter re ceived today by Sheriff J. T. Plun kett from the Essex county officials in New Jersey. Sheriff Plunkett said he would not send for the negro but would notify the Georgia prison authorities at Mil ledgeville. After Clarke killed three negroes in one night here in 1906, according to the sheriff’s records, he was given a life sentence and sent to the Mor gan county chaingang. There he is alleged to have killed a fellow con vict. Tried for that crime he was adjudged insane and sent to the state asylum. Later, upon being pro nounced sane, he was released from the asylum and returned to this county. The sheriff again arrested him and returned him to the state farm, which place he escaped about 10 years ago. In 1924 Clarke, the records reveal, was arrested in New Jersey for kill ing his wife. Tried for that crime there he was adjudged insane. Now, according to advices received by the sheriff here, he has been again judg ed sane, and the Newark authorities aye ready to return him to Richmond county. The letter from New Jersey to the sheriff here said that Clarke had con fessed to killing nine persons, but gave no details of the alleged kill ings. gsJsa etashrdetaoshrdltao THREE ARE KILLED BY SLATE FALLING DOWN MINE SHAFT Harlan, Ky., March 24.—Three miners were killed today by a fall of slate ^n a shaft where they were working at Twfla. The dead are: Will Gross, Lewis Rednoris and "Babe” Day. They were doing shift work in the Greech Coal company mines in Har lan county when they lost their lives. They were placing pillars in the shaft when slate overhead broke loose and crashed down on them. Their bodies were recovered by miners working in an adjoining shaft. A senator declares that short ses sions of Congress involve an enor mous waste of public money. But what of the long ones* NAHUNTA, BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24th, 1927. Court Fails To Reach Floggers Heavy Docket Prevents Trial of Five Men Until Later. TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY Counsel Claims Defendan’s Had No Connection With Case. Lyons, Ga., March 24.—The Toombs ounty superior court, faced with a heavy docket, failed to reach the trial of the five men charged with flogging and it is possible that the case will be called late this after noon. The five men are Mack New, J. L. Edenfield, Hugh Taylor, Tom Taylor and Willie McDilda, who were indicted on various charges in the connection with the whipping of Rev. J. T. Jc.L-o, near here last year. Their co insel has announced that a plea of not guilty will be entered and that they have strong evidence to show that the defendants had no con nection with the case. New is a merchant and the other four are members of prominent families in the country. The-minister was taken from the South Baptist church, seven miles from here, and carried to a lonely spot on a little traveled road and whipped. He is a resident of Ap pling county and was visiting the church in Toombs county when two masked men entered and esdorted him outside. Solicitor General A. S. Bradley spent the afternoon before the re convened special session of the grand jury. Judge R. R. Hardman did not de liver a charge to the grand jury Monday as he had previously charged that body it convened last month. A special venire from which a jury is to be drawn was called today. The picturesque old courthouse, situated on a high hill a«few blocks from the business section of the town, was crowded throughout Tues day.- BODY’S IDENTY RE- MAINS MYSTERY, SAID Harlan, Ky., March 24.—A move is underway today to introduce a bill in legislature for the compasating Conley Dabney, mountaineer, who was released from prison after serv ing several months on a life sentence for the murder of Mary Vickery. The latter recently returned to her home after two years of absence. Frankfort, Ky., March 24.— A Mystery still surrounds the identity of the body of a woman which was found in an abondoned mine and for a time believed to be that of Mary Vickery, 16, for who’s alleged death Conley Dabney was sentenced to life imprisonment. Dabney w r as pardoned Tuesday when Mary Vickery returned to her home here Saturday and denied that she knew the woman, a Marie Jack son, 27, who caused Dabney’s con victed man. At the trial Miss Jack son testified that she had seen Dab ney commit the murder but when the woman was brought face to face with Miss Vickery in the Harlan county jail she could not identify her. ambw ( etashrdetashrdta Police today continued their ef forts to determine why Miss Jack son testified at the trial that she saw the slaying but this morning had failed to bring a confession from her. The Dabney-Vickery case in Har lan county has almost a parallel in Bell, an adjoining county. James Eads of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, disappeared a few days be fore Christmas, 1925, at the time he was known to have had a dif ficulty with Dillard Wilson and Col son Howard at Bronies creek, twenty miles from here on the Harland road. Later some bones were found be hind a log near the house where the fight occurred. "Wilson and Howard were arrested and indicted on a charge of murder. While they were awaiting trial, Eads returned to his home in Wind sor. He told of having left Bell county and gone to New Orleans, where he shipped on a cattle boat and went around the world. Coun sel for Wilson said the bones were "nothing but those of a horse.” The murder indictments were dis missed. Read The Brantley Enterprise Early Trial For Slayer Os Two Grand Jury Indict Man Held Here For Brutal* Murder of Mrs. In gram and Infant Son. PRISONER DENIES KILLING PAIR H. A. Hammond Reiterates Denial That He Had Part in Slaying of Mother and Tiny Tot. Atlanta, Ga., March 22.—Indict ments charging Harold A. Hammond with the murder of Mrs. Lottie Bell Ingram and her 14-months-old son, Floyd, who were found dead in a bed in the Ingram home on Ashby street on the morning of February 4, were returned Tuesday by the Fulton county grand jury. There were two separate murder indictments returned, the first charg ing that he killed Mrs. Ingram by beating her in the head with a.hlunt instrument, unknown to the grand jurors, and the second indictment charged that he killed Floyd Ingram by choking and strangling him. Hammond was arrested Sunday night, March 13, near the scene of the murder by an Atlanta patrolman on a municipal court warrant charg ing murder, which was sworn out by investigators for Solicitor General John A. Boykin. The defendant fled from the city the night following the double slay ing, according to police, and for sev eral weks was a fugitive. Several witnesses declared they recognized Hammond’s voice during a “voice test” conducted by city de tectives following Hammond’s arrest, asserting that the voice “sounded liqe” the voice they heard on the night of the murder inquiring as to the direction of the Ingram home. Emphatic denial of any connection with the slayings has been made by Hammond from his cell in the Ful ton tower. No date fir the trial has been set. However, attaches in the solicitor’s office stated that Hammond probably would be placed on trial week after next. x The bodies of Mrs. Ingram and her infant were found in the bed short ly before 7 o’clock February 4 by the slain woman's husband. THE TOLL OF THE MOSQUITO We are now on the eve of that period of the year when the Anophe line (malaria) mosquito begins to take its toll. The toll of the mosquito may be regarded from three aspects; first, the annoyance, suffering and death caused by disease it transmits; second, the economic loss resulting from disease in expenditures for medical aid, nursing and medicines and loss of time and productive energf; and .third, the economic loss it occasions by retarding develop ment of, and depressing property values in sections where it abounds. Apart from the annoyance and dis comfort it causes it is solely respon sible for malaria, yellow fever, and dengue. Os these diseases malaria is the most prevalent and serious in the Southern States. Sir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the transmission of malaria by the mos quito, says: “Malaria is onb of the greatest scourges inflicted upon humanity. It’s a menace to any people of a country in which it has a decided incidence. In the num ber of deaths caused either directly or indirectly the sickness and suf fering, the loss of time and efficiency, the expense, the lowered vitality of those afflicted and in the reduction of the valuation of property, malaria is without a rival among the diseases afflicting mankind.” The late H. R. Carter, senior sur geon, United States Public Heealth Service, says: "The loss of effi ciency caused by malaria in malar ious sections is beyond comparison greater than that caused by any other disease, or even by any two or three diseases combined including typhoid fever and tuberculosis. You have never heard of the prevalence of ty phoid determining the failure to lo cate industrial plants. set, at one place where power was abundant and very cheap, the manager told me that a number of options for’cotton mills, factories, etc.,- —options which had been taken because of the cheapness of power—had been abandoned be cause of th^ prevalence of malaria.” Will Celebrate Bridge Opening Georgia and Florida in Joint Pro gram at Kingsland. ON APRIL 1 Another Completed Link In Atlantic Coastal Highway. Brunswick, Ga., March 24. —Geor- gia ans Florida will join in celebrat ing the occasion of the formal open ing of the St. Mary’s river bridge, which will be held at Kingsland, Ga., on Friday, April 1. This new structure connects with a free bridge the states of Georgia and Florida, and is one more com pleted link in the Atlantic Coastal Highway, removing the next to the last toll bridge on this highwty. The final toll bridge at Woodbine over the Satilla river, will be made free at a celebration about May 15 when the new bridge over the river there will be completed. Kingsland, just three miles north of the St. Mary’s riverbridge, will be host to the people of Georgia and other points on the Coastal Highway and is making arrangements for an old-fashioned Georgia barbecue and dinner. The Governors of Georgia and Florida, North and South Carolina, United States Senators, Congress men and state highway officials are expected to be present at the formal opening. Realize Long Dream It has been the dream of far sighted men for years to have a hard surfaced highway from the Canadian border to the end of Flor ida, Key West, passing through the original thirteen states and touching all the great eastern cities parallel ing the Atlantic Coast, and this dream and vision is now practically realized, for within a few months the great traveling public will be able to drive from the north and east in their automobiles a distance of 3,000 miles, through the most historic parts of the United States. GEORGIA EDUCATORS TO ASSEMBLE, THEY SAY Assembling of all of the educa tional forces of the state, with out standing educators, university and college presidents, city, county and state school heads attending, will mark the convening of the annual convention of the Georgia Education Association at Macon, April 12-16, according to announcement of plans for the meeting given out in Atlanta Saturday.^ It will be “Education Week” in Georgia. Walter P. Jones, superintendent of the Macon Public Schools, is president. The gathering of the delegates at tending the convention annually is regarded as the most outstanding educational force to assemble at any one time, and will bring together for discussion of greater education al expansion in the state, the men who have the responsibility on their shoulders of the educational trend of the state. District Leaders First District, Superintendent T. J. Lance, Waynesboro; Second Dis trict, Superintendent J. L. Yaden, Moultrie; Third District, Mrs. Helen B. Gurr, Terrell County School su perintendent; Fourth District, Prin cipal W. E. Drane, Columbus: Fifth District, Miss Maude Rhodes, princi pal Whiteford School, Atlanta; Sixth District, Superintendent R. I. Knox,' Jackson; Seventh District, Superin tendent R. G. Vinson, Summerville; Eighth District, Superintendent J. I. Allman, Hartwell; Ninth District, Superintendent B. J. Cantrell, Tenth Dirtrict, Principal L. F. Elrod, A. & M. School, Granite Hill; Eleventh District, Superintendent Everett Knox, county schools, Brantley, and Twelfth District, Superintendent W. A. Stone, county schools, Wilcox. The various officers and directors of the association, and the visiting educators will preside oyer the ses sions. Heron Is Killed By Windshield; The Motorits Are Hurt, k Is Said St. Petersburg. Fla., March 22.— When a blue heton, a large wutsr bird, struck the windshield of their automobile, as it w;s making 35 miles an hour Mr and Mrs. Ernest Tibbets received many cuts about the $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE How To Prevent Worms In Tobacco By J. M. PU®DOM Agricultural and Industrial Agent of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Cut worms often severely damage young tobacco and make it difficult to get a good stand in the field. The cut worm is the larval form of the beetle that is commonly known as the June bug. It s a voracious feed er and «if a considerable- number is present in the field it is almost im posible to get a good stand of to bacco unless they are killed. There sems to be a widespread be lief that after the weather grows hot and plowing or hoeing the crop is begun that the cut worms will dis appear and do no more damage. This impression is wrong. As a matter of fact the cut worms are larger and more active, and do more damage in the late spring and early summer than in the early spring. The dam age in the early spring can be quite serious (I set eight hills of tobacco in one of my fields on the Bth of March and within one week two of them had been cut down by cut worms) but it is usually more serious in the late spring, especially if the weather is dry and the plants are watered as they are set. I have seen fields of young tobacco prac tically destroyed by them. Cut Worm Bait. The most effective means of kill ing cut worms is to poison them. This is much more efficient and cheaper than hunting and killing them by hand. The poison mixture is known as cut worm bait. It is prepared by mixing bran ‘or shorts’ with Paris green at the rate of 25 pounds bran to 1 pound Paris green. This mix ture should be dampened, using wa ter that has been sweetened with syrup, or just plain water is the syrup is not available. Add sufficient wa ter to dampen the bran thoroughly, but not enough to make it sloppy. The mixture should be of such a con sistency that it will crumble freely. Two finely chopped lemons or or anges mixed with it will make jthe bait more attractive to the cut worms. How and When to Put it Out. A few small crumbs of the bait should be dropped close beside each hill of young tobacco. The sooner this is done after the tobacco is set in the field the more effective it will be in preventing cut worm dam age. To be most effective it should be put out late in the afternoon, and each day’s planting should he protected with the bait the same day it is set out in the field. It is rec ommended by some that the bait be put out on the row a day or two previous to transplanting tobaccco. This is especially advisable in the late spring when cut worms are very active. When this is done, if the beds are boarded off just ahead of transplanting, additional poison, if possible, should be dropped by the young hills in the afternoon of the day they are set. If the tobaccc is being planted behind oats, rye or corn, or if for any reason it is sus pected there is a considerable num ber of cut worms in the field it will be advisable to put out the poison bait again a week or 10 days after the plants have been set. A great many do not realize the seriousness of cut worm damage un til it is too late. We should re member now that a good, uniform stand is almost essential for mak ing a crop of good quality tobaecco, and also that each hill of tobacco de stroyed by a cut worm means the eventual loss of one-eighth to one quarter of a pound of tobacco. This loss is easily preventable and pre parations for transplanting are not complete unless the plans include preparations for killing the cut worms also. Henry Ford strongly oppeses capi tal punishment, but still manufac tures an instrument of mild torture. face near here last night. They were dr ving through fr'in Miami and were running along a clear stretch of road near a bayon. The bird was flying in the opposite direction from which the car was traveling and was confused by-a heavy fog. The bird splintered the heavy glass but was instantly killed.